[DeTomaso] ZF ACORN NUTS

[Rob Dumoulin]

How about a nice stainless Steel washer?

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM, <mikeldrew at aol.com> wrote:

> Bob wrote:
>
>
> Not knowing.....my restoration shop installed the acorn
> uts and when the  nut bottomed out they just tightened away pushing the
> stud
> nto the ZF REAR  casing. I backed out the stud located at 10:30 and put the
> riginal nut in  place and then covered it with the acorn nut.
>
>
>
>
> >>>Glad you found the source of the problem, but now your sealing acorn
> nut, isn't.
>
> What you need to do is use a cutoff wheel to shorten the protruding end of
> the stud, so that the acorn nut will bottom out on the surface of the rear
> cover.  I had to shorten 3-4 of my studs when I switched to sealing acorn
> nuts.  No more leaks!
>
> Mike
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